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Religion: Key Resources

Start your research using the best resources recommended by the subject librarian for religious studies. It highlights the key indexes and reference works for the academic study of religion, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and more.

Provides access to a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies-compiled from periodicals and from collections of articles-in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. Coverage in this electronic version begins with 1966 and includes the entire corpus of Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-yahadut, which is no longer published in paper.

Features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.

Provides access to a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies-compiled from periodicals and from collections of articles-in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. Coverage in this electronic version begins with 1966 and includes the entire corpus of Reshimat ma'amarim be-mada'e ha-yahadut, which is no longer published in paper.

Providing an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures,

A Dictionary of the Bible is the most authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date dictionary of its kind available. Containing over 2,000 entries it provides clear and concise information about the important places, people, themes, and doctrines of the Bible.

Provides "contemporary biblical scholarship on a comprehensive range of topics from the Old and New Testaments, the Deuterocanonical books, and from contextual studies of the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman worlds and their literatures. The biblical text used is the NRSV translation."

The entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the monumental, printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, additional search facilities and the supplement enable the user to efficiently search and combine data from a vast corpus of over 12,000 printed pages. Includes the Historical Atlas of Islam

Use the subject filters in the left navigation column to browse articles by topics such as religion, philosophy, and folklore. A print copy of the encyclopedia is available in the Baker Berry Reference Collection.

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PolicyMap is a fully web-based online data and mapping application that gives you access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources

Their objective is to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. You can map all types of demographic data including immigration.